Synonyms of unreal

unreal

adjective

ˌən-ˈrē(-ə)l 

1

as in absurd

conceived or made without regard for reason or reality

an unreal claim that is distant from the slightest hint of truth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• absurd
• bizarre
• foolish
• insane
• fantastical
• crazy
• fantastic
• strange
• incredible
• ridiculous
• fanciful
• nonsensical
• preposterous
• wild
• unbelievable
• grotesque
• weird
• off the wall
• curious
• peculiar
• inconceivable
• odd
• funny
• unimaginable
• implausible
• unthinkable
• surreal
• extravagant
• eccentric
• ludicrous
• outlandish
• laughable
• quaint
• dreamlike
• farcical
• quirky
• kinky
• nightmarish
• screwy
• queer
• whacky
• wacky
• out-of-the-way
• kooky
• outré
• far-out
• Alice-in-Wonderland
• way-out
• kookie
• bizarro
• queerish
• Kafkaesque

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonable
• realistic

2

as in mythic

not real and existing only in the imagination

the unreal world of TV sitcoms

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mythic
• fictitious
• imaginary
• mythical
• fictional
• fantastical
• fantasied
• imagined
• ideal
• phantom
• imaginal
• invented
• fantastic
• fanciful
• make-believe
• phantasmal
• chimerical
• chimeric
• theoretic
• theoretical
• phantasmic
• notional
• fabulous
• legendary
• pretend
• unbelievable
• unlikely
• visionary
• made-up
• romantic
• hypothetical
• abstract
• deceptive
• illusory
• fabled
• unconvincing
• phantasmagorical
• delusive
• hallucinatory
• nonexistent
• delusional
• phantasmagoric
• visualized
• envisioned
• fictive
• conceived
• pictured
• envisaged
• concocted
• fabricated
• feigned
• inexistent
• daydreamlike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• actual
• true
• existent
• genuine
• existing
• authentic
• factual
• realistic
• physical
• verifiable
• believable
• convincing
• substantial
• solid
• corporeal
• tangible
• material
• palpable
• verified

Examples of unreal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

What made the best Burton movies sing was the play between the normal and the paranormal, the grounding in the real as events got decidedly unreal. —Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024

The facts surrounding Perry’s demise are screwy from the start, with each new revelation just adding to the whole dreadful unreal only-in-Hollywood-maybe tilt and swerve. —Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2024

The atmosphere in the city since then has been unreal. —Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024

Lucy floated into Chaturanga in a way that was beautiful and unreal. —Anne Enright, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024